{"id":6141,"date":"2017-06-09T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T10:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:20:51","slug":"invitation-to-an-exhibition-of-unique-czech-architectural-cubism-22nd-june-2017-at-6-30pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/?p=6141","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to an exhibition of unique Czech architectural cubism, 22nd June 2017 at 6.30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the <b>3rd Anniversary of the Launch of the Czech National Trust<\/b> and to support<b> our Prague project &#8220;The Gems of Prague Streets&#8221;<\/b>, we are bringing to London an exhibition of unique <b>Czech architectural cubism<\/b>. \u00a0Making a short stop in London on its world tour, it will feature a talk by its author and expert on the period, <b>Ing Architect Zdenek Lukes<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>When: 22nd June 2017 at 6.30pm<br \/>\nWhere: St John\u2019s Notting Hill, Lansdowne Crescent, London W11 2NN<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<b>Guest of honour Catherine Leonard, Secretary General of the International National Trust Organisation INTO<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<b>Programme:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome and a short update on CNT projects<\/li>\n<li>Introduction &amp; opening of the exhibition by Prof \u00a0Zdenek Lukes<\/li>\n<li>Live jazz music &amp; reception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman';\"><b>Tickets: \u00a315, students \u00a35<br \/>\n(includes a glass of wine, beer or soft drink with finger food from award winning Restaurant &#8216;Portobello&#8217;)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman';\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>ALL PROCEEDS GO TOWARDS CNT PRAGUE PROJECTS<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<b>Payment options:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman';\">online on Eventbrite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/exhibition-of-unique-czech-architectural-cubism-comes-to-london-tickets-34136546329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/exhibition-of-unique-czech-architectural-cubism-comes-to-london-tickets-34136546329&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1495900767366000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHmN7rEd9cVizTDgAzFL1CydDjaTw\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/<wbr \/>e\/exhibition-of-unique-czech-<wbr \/>architectural-cubism-comes-to-<wbr \/>london-tickets-34136546329<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman';\">by cheque &#8211; payable to CNTA and sent to our registered office: c\/o Irena Edwards, 26 Clarendon Court, Sidmouth Rd., London NW2 5HB<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman';\">cash at the door &#8211; requires advance registration by <a href=\"mailto:ebonfield@cnta.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mailto:ebonfield@cnta.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman';\"><br \/>\n<i>*Czech Architectural Cubism, a unique style reflected in a number of structures built in Prague and elsewhere between 1911-1914 and then briefly after the World War I by Czech artists, designers and architects such as Pavel Janak, Josef Gocar, Josef Chochol or Vlastislav Hofman, who took their inspiration from the Cubism movement in Paris and brought it to Prague. Today Architectual Cubism is highly acclaimed all over the world and the most well known buildings in this style continue to generate an extraordinary level of interest. This exhibition was created in cooperation with the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague by Zdenek Lukes and the photographer Ester Havlova, whose black and white photographs superbly illustrate this architectural style.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Professor Ing Arch Zdenek Lukes<\/i><\/b><i>, a renowned architectural \u00a0\u00a0historian, architect, author and expert on modern architecture \u2013 one of the key personalities in revitalization of Prague Castle after the Velvet Revolution, expert on Cubism, author of over 50 books, frequent newspaper contributor and popular radio and TV personality.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of the Launch of the Czech National Trust and to support our Prague project &#8220;The Gems of Prague Streets&#8221;, we are bringing to London an exhibition of unique Czech architectural cubism. \u00a0Making a short stop in London on its world tour,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/?p=6141\">\u010ct\u011bte v\u00edce<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-akce-velehradu"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6198,"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/6198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}